[LeoDraco]

Or just not have that silly delay at all. That type of thing is very annoying.
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[Bjorn]

In any case, never take anything Happy says serious, or personal for that matter. If you read enough of his posts, you'll notice he's yelling at everybody but himself as he pleases. He's deliberately not minding his words, and it's only getting worse if you go into discussion about that part of his message.

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[Mokona]

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[LeoDraco]

[Ironshanks]

But I usually want to jump the messages not because I skip them but because I read them faster than the scrolling.
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[korndog]

Consider having a scroll speed option... it's not too hard to implement, just display X characters a frame instead of what seems like 1 at the moment.

Also, you could allow the player to walk around while simple text boxes are displayed. Like if a villagers only says a few lines, you wouldn't necessarily want to stop the player's movement just to read it.

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[pabarry]

I liked the game and would like to see more.

The only problems that I had were that sometimes the input was terrible (my character would walk into walls long after I let go of the arrow keys) and I would have liked it better if the text was displayed slightly faster.

The game's engine looks good (like that water and rain effect).

[-SJ Zero]

The new demo is up. It fixes the majority of the bugs I knew about (not the movement though, because whether it's even a problem is extremely debatable), and adds a few new features and some new art.

[Chingwa]

Wish I could take a look, but the game doesn't seem to work through WinXP. I get to the initial presentation screen and it just sits there... no input is accepted. I finally had to force-quit the program. :( Anyone with XP able to run this?

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[barok@home]

yeah, microsoft must really regret dos, cause each version supports dos programs worse than the last. i found that no midi program will work with xp. i'm hoping to learn enough to make my own.

you have to wait at the opening message. i found that it fades in, waits about ten seconds, then fades out again.

oh, i downloaded the new version, sjzero. it's nicer, but i find that squeezing around tiles is quite frustrating... perhaps you should have pixel perfect collission instead of tile? that's my main complaint.

also, to the person who requested the movement while talking routine, here's my thoughts.

doing that would be extremely difficult. why? becaue the jrpg engine would then have to constantly calculate the npc's walking paths, draw the map, draw them, draw the text box, and scroll the text all at blazing fast speeds. it could be possible, but it would mean a big decrease in the speed of the text.

to sjzero, here are some suggestions for walking npc's.

when you have your npc, put him on a certain type of tile. (say, a sidewalk tile.) have him walk in a straight path, staying on the tile. when he reaches a fork, quickly decide whether keep on going straight or turn. when he reaches a dead end, turn around again.

scripting. have a little course for your npc in a script, then load it up. for example, it could be something like, udrludrl, etc. etc. where u means up, d down and so on. and basically have it as an endless loop.

have an npc walk in one direction for 5-10 tiles (or until he hits an unwalkable tile) then have him move in another direction for 5-10, and so on and so on. if he hits a tile that's unwalkable, then make him change direction prematurely.

third, why not implement a multikey routine? i understand that you made one (works very nicely too), so why not use it? or would too many problems arise?